by Steve Birr Washington, D.C. officials are discussing an array of affordable housing plans that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The D.C. Council held a hearing Monday for a $50 million proposal to build 1,000 tiny homes around Washington that would provide affordable housing to the impoverished, elderly, millennials and minimum wage workers. Mayor Muriel…
Blake Neff A professor at Arizona State University (ASU) has announced he will step down several months after it was revealed he plagiarized Wikipedia for a textbook he wrote. But although the professor is leaving immediately, his resignation won’t take effect until 2017, and in the meantime school officials will pay him about $200,000 in…
Kathryn Watson While many Americans are making hopeful New Year’s resolutions for 2016 like losing weight, learning a new skill or saving more money, federal agency officials could focus on being more productive with the trillions of tax dollars they collect every year. There is no shortage of ways to do so. The Government Accountability…
Michael Bastasch Congress is set to pass a massive bill extending tax breaks for a wide range of activities from energy production to home ownership, but the $1.1 trillion bipartisan tax extenders bill also contains some provisions most people would find a little ridiculous. The so-called “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015,” or…